I'd never heard of "Knowing", a Nicolas Cage science fiction movie from earlier this year, when I read Ebert's 4 star review last week. Ebert led off his review by saying, "'Knowing' is among the best science-fiction films I've seen" and I generally agree with his opinion, so I thought I would watch. After finishing the movie (somewhat confused by Ebert's quote), I checked Rotten Tomatoes and discovered why I had never heard of the movie. It was roundly panned, and only had 33% positive reviews.
While I see what Ebert liked about the movie, I'm going to have to go with the consensus on this one. The problem was that, even though there were some interesting ideas and some really cool scenes (the final sequence in particular), the movie as a whole was just such a mess of ideas and themes that I was fairly bewildered by the end. The first 3rd of the movie (horror-tinged mystery) is completely different from the middle section (paranoid detective story) which, in turn, is completely different from the final third (hard-core scifi). Put it all together and the movie is a mess. A sometimes interesting mess, but a mess.
Oh and Nicolas Cage plays an MIT astrophysics professor. A drunk MIT astrophysics professor, but still ... really?
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